This is my choice for the most important question in the election 2010.

Stop selling cigarettes in Sweden.

Every year 4, 9 millions of people in the world die of tobacco diseases. It expects to go up even more in the year 2020. This number is really a catastrophe and I think it is time to do something about this unhealthy thing that so many people are choosing to do.

In Sweden there are over one million people that smoke. Of them 600 000 thousand want to quit smoking. People that smoke the most in Sweden are in the ages of 45-64 years old. It is well know that smoking can kill you but still people are smoking.
The companies that produced cigarettes are very successful and make huge money on smokers. So it is all about money. The companies do not care if it cost a human life or his/her health. But the Government, should not they have the power to make a change that would result in a healthier country? On the packets of cigarettes you can read that smoking kills, smoking can give you lung cancer, smoking is dangerous for you and your baby and more shocking texts. The producers of cigarettes are forced to write this on the packet and I believe that someone has get a really eye-opener. In America and Australia it is a picture on the packet how your mouth becomes when you smoke and a picture of a healthy lung and then a smoker’s lung. This has been really effective and this is something that I think the governments should consider to have in Sweden too.

There are many arguments in favor for this claim. The most important one is: what is
in this “Death Stick” that so many people want to have? When you smoke you get a lot of dangerous and poison substance into your body and especially your lungs. In one cigarette it is about 4700 different chemicals, about 50 is carcinogenic. Some of the chemicals and substance in a cigarette are forbidden in a working environment because they are so dangerous and poison for us human. My question is: Do people know what they actually are smoking?

I think one counterargument will be that it is up to every individual to smoke or not smoke. No one can decide over someone else but I think many people want to quit smoking and to stop selling cigarettes in Sweden this can help them.

We need to do something about this health problem and I think we need to act now. If we make the access harder to buy cigarettes and tobacco in Sweden I believe people would consider quitting smoking.

Let Sweden become a non smoking country!